Later, two of the original samples/center-key stimuli were established as conditional cues for new comparison responses, after which the ability of the remaining samples/center-key stimuli to occasion those new responses was assessed.
Bossuet, whose sermons depended to some extent on the stimulus of the occasion, has been called a lyrical preacher in contrast with Bourdaloue's more carefully prepared dialectical expositions.
A multiple baseline design across participants demonstrated that play taught via behavioral intervention may be maintained after programmed reinforcement is discontinued, generalize across settings and toys (i.e., response and stimulus generalization), and occasion a decrease in stereotypy.
In the natural environment, tobacco products arguably act as discriminative stimuli which set the occasion (signal) when instrumental tobacco-seeking is typically reinforced, and thereby come to elicit tobacco-seeking behaviour.
In both, animals were given identical training to that of Experiment 2, except that the stimulus sets used for occasion-setting training and for the transfer stimuli in that study were reversed (i.e. A, B, x and y were dark, flash, buzz and tone, and C, D, w and z were jewels, tray, click and noise).
However, as we had repeated a fraction of the trials, we were able to quantify the consistency of subjects by measuring the probability that they gave the same answer to the same stimuli on different occasions [ 24].
After the same training as in Experiments 2 and 3, different combinations of the trained cues were tested in compound – but never the stimuli that had served as occasion setters (see Table 4).
The more complex the tasks (e.g. complex arithmetic tasks or reading words from very specific word classes), the more adequate is the parametric modelling of stimulus features, since in many occasions authentic variation in stimulus properties cannot be matched exactly between different conditions, but only on average.
This would mean that substituting the occasion setter with another stimulus would have less effect on responding than substituting the target CS, and could explain why US specificity was only observed in the latter case.
Similarly, Brown et al. (32) analyzed the change in glucagon response to a mixed-meal stimulus in young patients on five occasions during the first year after the diagnosis of diabetes.
